The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the collation of results for the Federal Capital Territory Area Council elections at the Kubwa Registration Area Centre.
Naija News reports that the exercise began around 6:15 pm at the LEA Primary School, Kubwa II, shortly after voting ended across the polling units.
Presiding Officers arrived at the centre with their results and entered the figures into Form EC8A, while officials also used electronic devices to process the same results.
INEC officials adopted both manual and electronic methods to compare the figures recorded at the polling units.
The results had earlier been uploaded from the polling units to the INEC Results Viewing Portal using the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System. At the collation centre, officers used laptops alongside the BVAS machines to check that the figures corresponded with what was already submitted online.
An official at the centre explained that all Presiding Officers had transmitted their results through the BVAS before arriving for collation.
The process at the centre involved reviewing the uploaded results and comparing them with the manual entries to ensure they were the same. After this stage, the results would be moved to the Area Council office for further collation.
Another official, Mrs Okoye Adeiza, said staff from the Operations department handled the laptops, while the ICT team managed the BVAS devices. Both groups worked together to confirm that the figures from the polling units were consistent before moving them to the local government level.
The election took place across the six Area Councils and 62 wards in the Federal Capital Territory, where voters elected Chairmen and Councillors.
